Recent Free Reads

• Night Shade Books is releasing the entire text of Richard Kadrey’s novel Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion available as a DRM-free download, in a wide variety of formats.
• Futurismic features Eliot Fintushel fiction (try saying that three times fast): “Uxo, Bomb Dog“.
• Episode 1×02 of Shadow Unit (“Knock on Coffins“) is up. [via Elizabeth Bear]
• Free audio fiction from Spider Robinson: “Not Fade Away” (1982) and “Orphans of Eden” (1996). [via SFFaudio]
• John Joseph Adams points us to some free fiction from Jeremiah Tolbert:
  • Online: “Spooning” (Ideomancer, 2003).
  • Online: “Storm Come’s A’Callin” (Ideomancer, 2004).
  • PDF: “The Girl With the Sun in Her Head” (Polyphony 4).
  • Audio: “Instead of a Loving Heart” (All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories.)
  • Online: “The Yeti Behind You” (Fantasy Sampler, 2007).
  • Online: “Captain Blood’s B00ty” (Shimmer Magazine, 2007). [Link needs fixin' methinks!]
  • Online: “Babe, I’m Going to Leave You” (2008).
• Storyline Online has actors reading children’s books – f’rinstance Lou Diamond Phillips reading Chris Van Allsburg’s The Polar Express. [via mental_floss Blog]

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